Croaker Croaker Croaker

I fished with the Hynote crew - Tom and his son Bennett, and his brother-in-law Chris and his daughter Briana, meeting them up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early this morning. We made a long run up and into the Jolley River to an exposed oyster bank on a low and incoming tide - a place that I had done really well a week ago on a similar tide. All four anglers were tossing jigs and live shrimp and making excellent casts. They were all getting bites but no real takers. Finally, Bennett hooked up and reeled in a Croaker. Then Briana did the same, reeling in an even bigger Croaker. The anglers caught and landed a good handful of those - I don't think the Reds and Trout and Flounder even had a chance!

We ran back to the mouth of the Jolley and fished the "bank" and here Briana hooked up and landed a feisty Redfish, then we landed another. Chris got on the board with a Seatrout catch before we moved back up the river. We fished up at Snook Creek with float rigs, then came back north. As we eased up to a pocket, Briana had made an excellent cast up between two grassy islands and BOOM! Fish on! She fought it valiantly but the fish cut the line on some oysters. Ouch. Then Tom had the same thing happen, BOOM! Big Fish on!  Then, BAP! fish off!  Boy oh boy. Finally, Bennett stepped up, hooked up,  and brought to the boat a nice 24" Slot sized Redfish

Our next stop was around to the outside of Tiger where we landed a small Seatrout or two, then we finished up over at Bell River, again with a Trout catch. The wind had picked up, the storm clouds were rolling in, so we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.